MisterBastahrd

It's not reductive at all. Telling someone that they are only worthy of torture or destruction for not believing in an unprovable entity is actually worse than that.

It's pretty funny when you consider that a huge part of Christian evangelism is the attempt to convince normal people that they aren't worth dirt and are condemned to eternal torture unless they believe in somebody that the religious can't prove exists for a feat that they can't prove ever happened.

Ever watched someone pour salt on a slug or an earthworm? What do you think it's going to do to single celled creatures?

I'm not a child. I don't go into the workplace looking for bonding. You know what bonding gets you when you get laid off? A cone of silence because you're immediately forgotten. If you are attempting to create a social life through your work environment, you're doing it wrong. This isn't to say you can't have friends at work, or create professional networks, but you should never pretend that your co-workers will automatically be your friends or want to be your friends, especially in competitive environments. It isn't good for you and it isn't good for them.

I implemented something similar years ago for the publisher I worked for. Like 2006ish. It was after Katrina, I'd never had a full time dev job, and I created it as a POC to show to my employer that they could invest in me full time as a developer (I was helping put their magazines together when I wasn't working on their CRM).

I created a marketplace with finely tuned SEO for my employer to advertise (and charge) companies in niche industries. My SEO was better than the SEO of the developers who worked on their sites, and our audience was obviously much larger than theirs, so we ranked higher. Any time you would search for the company name or the product type in a certain geographic area, you'd find links to our pages dominating the search results.

One of the interesting things is the shenanigans some of these companies would pull to show up first in our local results. A whole lot of A1 and AAA names began to spring up as they decided that if the list was going to be alphabetical by default, then they needed to be the first in their category.

The biggest impedance to putting something in / pulling something out of an oven is its door. French doors means that you can get as close to the oven as you need to without the physical obstruction directly in front of the thing you're attempting to interface with. Nobody is attempting to load an oven from the side. The article screams "I don't understand practical design."

I'm never going to be on call. It is a condition of my employment. If you've let them abuse you like that, then it's on you.

That isn't to say that if something needs to be overseen because a part of our infrastructure needs updating that I won't volunteer. But being mandated to babysit systems? No, absolutely not.

Any company that tells me I have to be in office 5 days a week is a company I am never bringing home a laptop for. If the place burns down because it isn't adequately staffed outside of normal working hours, so be it.

There's already price inflation.

Let's do a 1 cent to 1 Bullshit Buck scenario.

You want to buy that sweet thing that costs 1600 Bullshit Bucks? Too bad, you can only buy 2000 Bullshit Bucks at a time. Now you have 400 Bullshit Bucks that you can't do anything with, because nothing in the game store is that cheap. So you either have to buy MORE currency and hope that you can purchase something that will even things out, or you basically just handed the company $4.

Good. There shouldn't BE such a thing as in game currency. At least not any currency that can be purchased with money. Especially when companies will always set the price of an item to be less than the cost to purchase the currency, meaning that in order to use the full amount, you need to buy MORE currency and an additional item.

Sorry, I feel no sympathy for them.

I went to college before I had internet access and my decision on what college degree to get and where to go to get it was based upon the salary I would receive upon graduation and my ability to repay my loans. I went to the library to figure these things out for myself.

Nowadays, you don't even have to get up out of your chair. If you are a young person and you make stupid decisions on your college education and student loans, that's a YOU thing.

I personally think college should be free because education is a worthwhile endeavor for everyone. But since it isn't, I'm not willing to make excuses for those who attend without weighing the costs and benefits. It's one of the easiest things in the world to do.

Meta just created the dumbest object known to mankind. Quite an achievement given our current political landscape.

Sounds like normal human behavior.

The problem with subscription sites like that is that paying for a month's subscription gives you access to the entire backlog of the work that a person has been doing for years. There's only so much that an OF model is gonna be able to do in terms of posing before they've done all the angles that someone would want to see. Why pay for repetitive content when you can just pay for a month and download everything, wait a year, and then do it again?

If these sites were smart, they'd implement a 3 month rolling backlog and then a set add-on price for accessing additional months worth of content.

Left wing?

The NYT is corporate wing. There's no charitable way to look at their reporting on the current election cycle and make the claim that they've treated the candidates equally. Donald Trump hasn't uttered a consecutive set of coherent sentences where he starts with an idea and finishes with an actual conclusion that isn't "and it'll be better / worse than ever before" in at least 5 years.

No, it really isn't, and I've been working with Linux on desktops since I installed slackware from floppy disks from the back of a giant book after having used Sparcstations. Every single implementation is terrible and breaks in weird ways.

So... we about 5 years out from a Linux desktop, right?

If you can't figure it out without the help of an LLM, you're gonna be in a world of hurt in a real world application where you're dealing with a mature codebase and aren't playing with toys you built yourself. Part of being a quality developer is learning how to get unstuck on your own.

Like Asteroids with a health bar and without the movement.

I once worked for a company that had a designer who was color blind. He would always show up wearing the exact same outfit every day: turns out that he was REALLY color blind, and so he just gave up and bought 7 long sleeved shirts and 7 pants, all black. Didn't work out so well for him in the designs... most companies don't want monochrome websites.

I remember reading this article in Esquire about Francois Mitterand and his last great meal:

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a4642/the-last-meal-05...

Are we pretending that a society that does everything digitally is going to have consistent signatures worthy of detecting fraudulent activity?

I've lost over 150 pounds from the time I last had a photo id taken, mostly due to illness. I've grown facial hair to hide some of the lines in my face so that I don't look as sickly, and it is incredibly hard for me to get around. Should I be denied the right to vote because I don't look like the fat man in the picture?

It's whatever these luddites dream up in their intelligence-stricken skulls. It also changes depending on the day of the week and the direction of the wind.

For example, our current credit system is much closer to "mark of the beast" level stuff than a society where everything is paid for with physical cash, but the same people who are afraid of the mark are fine with credit cards because it keeps undesirables away from them. The truly destitute are not going to have a credit card most of the time, and if they do it's because they're cashing checks through a payday lender who keeps 3% of their income plus a service fee in order to keep their account.

The actual reality is that you worked yourself into the untenable position of being so hands-off with people that you need a social network to do what a phone can do just as well, and that's because most of the people in everyone's social network are not actually people that we care to stay in touch with on a daily or even monthly basis. You don't need a social network. You choose to use one.

There are people in my facebook feed who I haven't seen in person in over 20 years. It's nice to keep up with them and their lives and families, but if I lost access to facebook tomorrow, it wouldn't change a thing for me. I am friendly with these people but I don't actually know them anymore and am not all that invested in their lives.

Texas is a giant strip mall with football stadiums and megachurches sprinkled throughout.

Someone unleashed some sort of AI on UberEats the other day apparently, because I was looking for Chinese food and found entire menus filled with nonsensical descriptions. Did you know that Dan Dan noodles, Orange Chicken, and Mei Fun noodles are all made with wonton wrappers and cream cheese? Me neither!

If you're looking for something a tiny bit different, try to find some Ripley's Believe it or Not books. When I was about that age, I got into my uncles' stash from when they were kids and I read every book cover to cover.

Step 1: seize property

Step 2: hold onto it for an indefinite period of time

Step 3: steal the property

Step 4: when the owner comes for their stuff, claim the property went missing

Step 5: wait for a lawsuit that usually doesn't come because the property isn't worth enough and nobody wants to get in a suit with cops for what's usually small claims

None of this is going to change unless you prevent cops from handling seized property.

Depends on how your brain is wired, I guess.

Know what happens if I go on a quest instead of pursuing a goal?

I end up using every available moment of time to plan said quest.

So I don't do quests. I have goals. As long as I'm moving forward, it doesn't matter what specific route I take.

Yep. "I don't want to put forth the effort of taking my phone out of my pocket so instead I'll talk to a lapel pin and hold my hand out to read a really crappy projected monochrome display" is sorta.... silly.